The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-10
THE PROOFS.
What Convicted the Doomed
Anarchists.
REVIEW OF THE CONSPIRACY.
Clear and Logical Evidence That the
Condemned Seven were Movers
In the Massacre.

Clear and Logical Evidence That the
Condemned Seven were Movers
In the Massacre.
TO morrow, the seven Chicago Anar-
chists will meet the doom pronounced upon
them by jury of their fellows, and con-
firmed by the highest tribunal in the land
The chance of any interposition on the part
OF the Governor OF Illinois is such as not
to be worth considering. In view of the
frenzied appeals the friends of the Anar-
chists are making and their claims that their
execution will be legal murder, review Of
the evidence on which they were found
guilty, will be of especial interest
CHICAGO, ILL.,, October 90. 1887.-The
charge is often made that no evidence
was produced at the trial OF the seven
condemned Anarchists TO show that the
men knew that bomb was to be thrown
the night of the Haymarket meeting or
that they had any knowledge as to the
thrower of the deadly missile.
A reading of the evidence, however,
will show that the condemned belonged
to a secret organization the object of
which was to engage in conflict with the
police and overthrow law, order and
authority in this city. This organiza-
ton preached that dynamite bombs
should be thrown by the wOrkingmen as
q means of eKacting their rights from
the capitalists. Instructions we're given
IN the secret lodges as to the use of
dynamite and the manufacture of
bombs; books and newspapers contain
ing such instructions were distributed
by the men under sentence; the bomb
which was thrown at the Haymerket the
night of May 4, 1886. was made py
Louis Lingg, and number of like ones
were distributed short time before the
gathering of the Haymarket Getting,
those taking them having we'll defined
idea that they were to be used at some
time or place on the police, and in all
probability that very night. The ar
rsngement for their distribution was
made, III fact, at meeting attended by
four of the principal conspirators, who
are now under sentence of death. The
bomb was thrown by Rudolph Schnau-
belt, the brother-in Law of Michael Sch
Wab, and it is among the probabilities
that August Spies lit the match that
igDited the fuse.
THE B0MBMAKER.
Lingg was the bombmaker for the con-
spirators, and the pattern he used was
that of the Gar bomb, two semi-globu- |
lar shells fastened together by a metal
lie bolt with bead at one end and nut !
at the other. A nut was taken from the |
body of tailor named Hahn, who was |
wounded the night the bomb was |
thrown. and it was found to correspond |
exactly with those on the bombs made |
by Lingg. The composition of the !
bomb was chiefly lead, with a small |
quantity of tin and traces of anthony,
iron and zinc.
Spies had often spoken of the supe-
riority f the Gar bomb because of its
construction OF compound metals, ana |
for some time previous to his arrest had .
one on exhibition in his Office, which he |
delighted in showing to reporters who !
came to see him. For this reason it has
been commonly known ia Chicago as
the "Spies" bomb.
These bombs were made at the house |
of a carpenter named William Seliger, |
who lived at No. 442 Sedgwick Street, on |
the north side. Seliger turned informer |
and told all about the manufacture OF |
these missiles-'fodder for the police" |
as Spies had often termed them. Lingg |
lived with Seliger, and the latter knew !
all about the manufacture of the things
by the aid of which the social revolution |
was to be brought about in Chicago.
LINGG S EXPERIMENTS.
Lingg often went into the woods north |
of the city and experimental with the
bombs upon the trees, tearing them 70
pieces. He was assisted in his work of !
manufacturing them by Seliger and two
other men named Thielen and Her
mann. The men wore haudkerchiefs |
over their faces while at work.
After the massacre many of these |
bombs were found in Lingg's trunk and
under a sidewalk on Sigel Street where
he had buried ahen Immediately after
the Hayn arket explosion. Confeder-
ates of Lingg in the making of these
bombs were Huebner and Munsenberg,
Lingg being the moving active spirit.
The bombs were made by Lingg I'M
der the auspices of the International
Association, which furnished the
money, and every one of the condemned
men were members of this association.
They could not but know what was 60
ing on, as they were looked up to by
their fellows as leaders. An entertain
ment was given in Florus Hall in
March, 1886, and the proceeds were
given Lingg for the purpose of buying
dynamite with which to experiment.
Informer Lehman sYore- to-this and
said the vote was unanimous that the
money should be given to Lingg. He
was also the agent selected bV certain
members of the armed sections of the
International groups" to buy dyna-
mite with their money and experiment
With it. Huebner was the librarian of
the north side group" and had charge
of the distribution of Herr Most's book.
Seliger was also member of the gen.
ersl committee. which stood at the head
of all the groups"
DEADLY PREPARATIONS.
The afternoon preceding the evening
of the explosion trunk was filed with
these dynamite bombs by Lingg and
GoIioor ob5 NO fv-O man |